Here is a list of best quotes by legendary Muslim boxer Muhammad Ali, many of his words are very topical and touches on a variety of global issues that fascinated people across the world.
Compiled by Abdullahi Jamaa & Ibrahim Issack
In his life, Muhammad Ali was strong both in mind and muscle, in his classical feedback either to the media or celebrities he always responded with precision and careful enunciation of power words. Here is a list of his best quotes:
- I am a Muslim and there is nothing Islamic about killing innocent people in Paris, San Bernardino, or anywhere else in the world. True Muslims know that the ruthless violence of so called Islamic Jihadists goes against the very tenets of our religion. – Ali, 2015.
- What I suffered physically was worth what I’ve accomplished in life. A man who is not courageous enough to take risks will never accomplish anything in life. – Ali at a news conference on October 28, 1984.
- A man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
- People say I talk so slow today. That’s no surprise. I calculated I’ve taken 29,000 punches. But I earned $57 million and I saved half of it. So I took a few hard knocks. Do you know how many black men are killed every year by guns and knives without a penny to their names? I may talk slow, but my mind is OK. – Ali, January 20, 1984.”
- Stay strong. Read the Quran. Pray. Praise Allah. These things will help you.
- If my mind can convince it, and my heart can believe it-then I can achieve it.
- It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out, it’s the pebble in your shoe.
- I hated every minute of training, but I said ‘don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.
- Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? Ali, February, 17, 1966.
- Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
